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From: alan@pdn.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: PARADIGM FLAME
Message-ID: <1690@pdn.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Oct-87 23:59:10 EST
Article-I.D.: pdn.1690
Posted: Thu Oct 29 23:59:10 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Oct-87 20:39:16 EST
References: <236@titn.TITN>
Reply-To: alan@pdn.UUCP (0000-Alan Lovejoy)
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Keywords: paradigm != model

In article <236@titn.TITN> jordan@titn.TITN (Jordan Bortz) writes:
>...since paradigm does *not* mean model or philosophy, 
>please do not confuse us or try to impress us when a simple word
>will convey the same idea more clearly, succinctly, and without distracting
>our brains with an obscure word used incorrectly.

One of the most revolutionary books of the 20th Century, "The Structure
of Scientific Revolutions", by Thomas S. Kuhn (I hope that's all
correct), uses the word "paradigm" to mean approximately "weltanschaung"
or "world-view" or "interpretation of reality" or "model of the world".
This book has been so influential that the word paradigm has in fact
come to mean these things in *modern* academic usage.  Language is a
dynamic "object" and I really do get tired of all the pedants who
see it cast in stone and forevermore frozen in place by dusty old
dictionaries.  If that's your view of language, what are you doing
playing around with Smalltalk?

--Alan "The Descriptive Linguist" Lovejoy
UUCP: alan@pdn